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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Blair is creating super-intelligent military robots that will rise up and destroy us all

It seems that someone in the Ministry of Defence may have a sense of humour:

“The British military is set to take one of its most significant steps into the digital age with the launch of the first Skynet 5 satellite.“The spacecraft will deliver secure, high-bandwidth communications for UK and ‘friendly’ forces across the globe. It is part of a multi-billion-pound project that will allow the Army, Royal Navy and RAF to pass much more data, faster between command centres.”

“is a machine network that has gone on a mission to terminate all humans in a global war. ... Skynet was first built as a Global Digital Defense Network, made to generate machine models that would replace U.S. military personnel and vehicles. Skynet became self-aware and decided to terminate all humans to protect its existence. Every nuclear missile in the USA under Skynet's control was launched and in the counterattack of other nations 3 billion humans were killed in two minutes.”

Fortunately, the Government’s record on getting new computer systems to work efficiently suggests that we don’t have much to worry about.